Enabling a Pace Layered Application Strategy

Enterprises are cognizant of the digital trends that are radically transforming customer behavior. It is causing enterprises to break sweat in the way they operate, forcing them to adapt or perish. Developers and business users are not happy with the pace of innovation in their enterprises and find it hard to understand numerous processes and limitations that restrict them from moving faster.

We explain how Gartner’s Pace Layered Application Strategy can help enterprises create an experimental, agile organization focused on time-to-market, rapid application evolution, and, in particular, tight alignment with business units.

Creating the ideal enterprise innovation infrastructure

Traditional application delivery can rarely get to all of the custom apps that the business needs causing enterprise IT teams to explore modern technology platforms. Meanwhile, CIOs are having sleepless nights thinking about how to tackle enterprise challenges while dealing with shrinking IT budgets. The Sandbox for enterprise innovation provides the essential freedom from issues that confront today’s enterprise app development teams:

With ease and speed of the using rapid application delivery and low code platforms

Simpler integrations to APIs or master data on company’s system of records and system of differentiation

Having an application designed for cloud deployment and meeting scalability needs

Using collaborative development involving not just professional developers

The sandbox needs to make complex processes simple and have the ability to configure, manage and monitor systems out of the box.

What is a Pace Layered Application Strategy?

According to Gartner, a pace layered application strategy “is a methodology for categorizing, selecting, managing and governing applications to support business change, differentiation and innovation.” With a pace layered strategy, businesses can build an application strategy that delivers a faster response and a better ROI, without sacrificing integration, integrity, and/or governance. Gartner has classified these into three categories or layers explained in the figure below.

Systems of Innovation: New applications built on an ad hoc basis to cater to new business requirements and opportunities.

Systems of Differentiation: Applications which need to incorporate company processes and industry-specific capabilities.

Systems of Record: These are legacy home grown systems that support core transaction processing and manage the organization’s critical master data.

How to implement a Pace Layered strategy for your enterprise

WaveMaker has helped enterprises across industries and geographies to adopt Pace Layered strategy for their enterprise application portfolio using the following, proven three-phase execution process:

Assess:

Create a panel of business users and IT application experts

Analyze the characteristics of each application and the business process it supports

Assign risk, cost and business value to each application

Categorize applications into one of the three pace-layers as per their characteristics

About WaveMaker

Organizations across the globe rely on WaveMaker to leverage Pace Layered application strategy for their application delivery needs. Our Rapid Application Development Platform is the most open, extensible and flexible low-code platform that complements your existing enterprise application delivery. You can get started with a free, 30-day on-premise or online trial.

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